If I correctly understood the question it would be an uphill task that has to be separately taken up and then to be decided. For, the old Catalogus Catalogorum is outdated and the compilation of a new one was still going on when I last visited it. The task of finding out just reported manuscripts gave progressively different results.
But I might have wrongly understood the question mentioned.
Best
DB

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:53 PM, John Brockington <John.Brockington@btinternet.com> wrote:
Dear colleagues,

I have been asked the question below, to which I cannot remember the answer either.  Does anyone else have a better memory (or the forethought to make a note of the reference) or is able to point us to equivalent information?  Any leads would be most welcome.

"I’m currently putting together a small presentation for a workshop on digitisation  . . . and, as is the way of things, trying to track down a reference for a piece I once read about the loss of manuscript collections in India since the Raghavan survey. I remember once reading some astonishing assertion of the percentage of manuscripts listed in that survey that were no longer extent but stupidly didn’t note the reference. I had thought it was in one of Dominik Wujastyk’s articles but have failed to find anything beyond more general comments about the 19th century being the point at which India had the richest manuscript collections."

Best wishes

John Brockington

 
Professor J.L. Brockington
Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, University of Edinburgh
Vice President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies

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